One of the most popular storybooks when my kids were too young to read was a treasury of farmyard tales. It wasn’t just preferred by my kids; I loved it too, not least because there was an accompanying CD of all the stories, so I could push play and find a few minutes’ space to…
Month: August 2021
Recent Reads, Volume XVII
A brief summary of what I’m currently reading or have recently finished, why I read it, and whether I’d recommend it. Although really, it’d have to be truly terrible for me to bother writing about a book I wouldn’t recommend…… By Pike and Dyke (G. A. Henty) – Henty wrote historical fiction for an intended…
Reputations Based on Speech
One of the lesser known facts about our family dynamics is that of the two adults, I’m the bigger sports fan. That doesn’t mean that I’m a raging fanatic, only that if any kind of sporting event is playing in our house, it’s because I turned it on. Similar to my tastes in reading, where…
Through a Glass Darkly
My home sits at the top of a ridge running more or less in a north-south direction, with slopes both in front and back. The backyard slopes east toward woods, and all the bedrooms have at least one window that lets in the early morning sun, its rays filtered through the trees. The front of…